kcjenkins

http://addicted2success.com/success-advice/the-top-5-regrets-in-life-by-those-about-to-die/

Everyone should call and register this complaint. So they get it fixed quickly. The more people who complain, the more they will pay attention. Be the squeaky wheel, folks.

I think those three you mention are due a personal visit or phone call. Start off with "I'm sure this was just overlooked, but I need your payment of your balance now. ....." You will likely get some feeble explanation, but you will get paid. Once they agree that they "overlooked" it and are going to pay you right away, you may go by and pick it up, take cc info, or whatever you choose. Just remember, it's easy to set a bill aside for 'later', but hard to ignore when dealing with someone in person.

Don't have time to look it up now, but I do know you can always write your own election form as one option.

I think it is an awkward but practical solution to a complex problem. We all know that SOMETHING is going to change, but not only the 'what' but the 'when' of the changes is impossible to determine at this time. And we all know that come Jan, all those hundreds of thousands of people who get big 'refunds' of money that they did not pay in are going to be screaming if there is any delay in them getting their annual 'gift' from their favorite Uncle. Many of those will not be effected much either way, and they will want to file on the first day, as they have come to expect to be able to do.

What happens when you try to Import the file?

Clearly, price is not the only consideration, but it is still an important one. And of all the programs I've looked at in it's price range, Max is the most complete and so, for the single, competent professional, it provides a system that will handle every possible type of return, plus payroll, it even has marketing forms built in, like customer referral forms.

Don't mean to seem too obvious, Jack, but a lot of members have never used the PM option, and never knew how easy it is to do that.

And the easy way to do that is to just click on his pic, them select 'Send private message'

http://www.accountingtoday.com/podcasts/Planning-Fiscal-Cliff-Additional-Medicare-Tax-64911-1.html?ET=webcpa:e6409:61496a:&st=email

Shows that Gates does not understand tax law, is all. There is certainly some price at which it would sell, even if that amount is less than he paid to build it that price would certainly not be zero.

Let me clear up a couple of things. Depreciation does carry over, its just that after CCH bought ATX, they decided to offer a Fixed Asset Manager as a separate product, and they removed a couple of features from Max, like the asset history and now provide that only in the FA module. ATX still provides more forms than ANY other software. It's diagnostics are not as detailed as the 3K and up software, but still OK for any experienced professional, IMHO. As for the support, I think you need to know two things. Many of us on here go way back to early days of ATX. I was a user of a 3K+ software myself until it was bought by Intuit and killed off. When I was determined not to use an Intuit product, I found ATX. What I found was a program without a few of the conveniences, but still a great program. But what was truly amazing about ATX at that time was their people. Support was FANTASTIC. They were not only very good, they were dedicated to providing their users exceptional service. I remember one night, that first year, when I called them at 8 pm my time over a problem that I had caused. That's 9 pm their time. Tech support worked with me for 4 hours straight to help me fix the problem. A problem I'd caused, not their program's fault. Not a word about the fact that they were past closing time for support. Once it was fixed, I was ecstatic. But totally amazed that the next day I got a followup call just to make sure the problem was fixed. They also had a process that allowed us to connect to the specific programmer for a specific form, giving direct feedback. They were extremely responsive to what we asked for. If we asked them to add a state form, for example, that they did not have, they almost always were able to provide it for us. And their Community Forum was monitored by a guy named William, that we still miss!!!! He was always there to help us, either setting us toward the right answer when we had a question or sending us to the tech person who could. It was the best support of any software for anything, that I had [make that have ever, to this day] ever known So when we sometimes gripe about the current support, it's probably less that CCH support is not good, rather that we miss the extremely superior level it had when Steve and Glynn Willett still owned it. Some of the support team had been there when they worked on the original program in the Willet's home. We compare today's adequate support to those days, and just have to gripe a bit now and then.

Aside from the logic that any business using 5 or more vehicles at the same time should be business-like enough to keep proper records, as well as the issue you mention, you also have to remember that tax code is written by committees, Taxman. Just remind yourself that a camel is a horse designed by a committee and you will stop looking for logic There is some in there, but it's by accident. LOL

Final resolution. Not fair, but at least better. http://wealthmanagement.com/taxes/sonnabend-case-settles

Clearly she does not recognize tongue in cheek humor Jack. The idea that your joking suggestions have anything in common with someone smearing their tax return with .....well enough said. Quoting Dave Berry might be what drove her to that message?

Last week for Thanksgiving, my mom went to my sister's house for the traditional feast. Knowing how gullible my sister is, my mom decided to play a trick: She asked my sister to pick up something from the store. When my sister left my mom took the turkey out of the oven, removed the stuffing, stuffed a Cornish hen, inserted it into the turkey, and re-stuffed the turkey. She then placed the bird(s) back in the oven. When it was time for dinner, my sister pulled the turkey out of the oven and proceeded to remove the stuffing. When her serving spoon hit something, she reached in and pulled out the little bird. With a look of total shock on her face, my mother exclaimed, "Patricia, you've cooked a pregnant bird!!" Upon pondering this horrifying news, my sister started to cry. It took the family two hours to convince her that turkeys lay eggs! Yep -- Patricia is blonde!

Never Buy Version 1.0 Torpedoes Some years ago, I worked with a fellow with the very British name of Ken Appleby. He had a Spitfire, I had my '74 B, and we used to motor out to Pickwick's Pub and throw darts after work on occasion. Ken used to work for Lucas in the UK, specifically for a division of Lucas that did military electronics. My favorite of his stories was about the time he had been working on a computer-controlled torpedo. It used magnetic core memory to store the programs, which had the advantage of being very non-volatile as well as not susceptible to EMP discharge. So Ken got to ride on the boat for the first test of the torpedo that used the computer with his program in it. Somewhere out in the North Sea, on a Royal Navy cutter, Ken and his crew launched the first ever run of this new weapon, and Ken learned a new respect for debugging. The program was supposed to make the torpedo shoot off the boat, dive to a depth at which it couldn't be easily detected, then circle toward the target, climb to striking depth, and hit the target. There were on-board sensors to detect sea level, and the torpedo was supposed to travel at a preset distance below sea level, with constant feedback keeping it on track. Somehow, somewhere, Ken had multiplied one of the 3D coordinates by a negative number, and this error soon propagated through the transformation matrix (the mathematical construct that models 3D space), with predictable results. Within instants of hitting the water, the torpedo -- instead of sinking out of visible range -- blasted up and out from the water in a great silver fountain, then continued skipping across the surface of the blue like some sort of deranged wingless flying fish. Worse yet, instead of circling toward the target, it circled all right, but began to return to the ship that launched it. Fortunately it was not armed, but they still detonated the self-destruct on it rather than let it slice through their ship at 50 knots or whatever rate it traveled. Because of the non-volatile core memory, Ken was able to debug the program from what the Royal Navy frogmen could recover from it, and he fixed the problem for Rev 2.0. But I must admit that the image of the torpedo, splashing happily above the surface of the water like an aroused porpoise, is one that returns to me in idle moments such this. What else would a Lucas torpedo do but try to fly?

I'd say that a better answer would be that they could see astrophysical events but not sociological ones. Not that I am expecting an astrophysical event this month. LOL

Commodore 64 command to start a program. Brings back lots of memories.

The minister was just starting his sermon when he spotted a man step inside. He beckons him to sit and launches into his lesson on the Ten Commandments. Since it was a new face, the minister makes sure to seek the man out after the service to greet him. "I have to confess," the man says, "that I didn't come in to hear your sermon. I came in to steal a hat, because it's cold and I seem to have lost mine." "What made you stop, then?" the minister asks. "Well, your talking about 'Thou shalt not steal' made me think about it." "Terrific!" the minister says. "Besides," the man continues, "when you got to 'Thou shalt not commit adultery', I remembered where I left my hat."

Had not felt like posting these lately, so felt like I needed to catch up. :P

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I love that Simpsons clip!!!!!